Hey thanks Grog... and yeah I tried to go fairly deep on this guy. I wanted him to be "good"...

Essentially the dude I made it for is a good friend who lives a little over an hour away and has put me up at his place during several large tiki jobs (and continues to do so). I drive a big-ass lifted crew cab Tundra that gets like ten gallons to the mile, so he's saved me a bunch of money not having to commute during those jobs,...plus he's a respected local artist and he puts me over a lot & talks to people about my tikis, so I kinda figured I owed him something nice. Yesterday was his birthday, and I woke up and decided it was time to settle accounts...lol...

I had previously (a few weeks ago) given him a total garbage $50 tiki I made for a plant sale because it essentially sucked and I figured he could salvage it by painting it or something, and he was all happy about it and was like "no man, I wanna keep in natural like you made it" and I just felt like a tool....so I made him a nice one... he's WAY stoked on this one for sure though....(he better be damn it...I worked on it most of the day!!! lol)....

I use blinders, smoke and mirrors, so I look super busy, but you can't ACTUALLY SEE anything...

I also use a body double so I look super ripped!

meantime, I've got like 3 illegals & their pregnant wives out in the truck carving them for $3 a day...

and before I show up at Hukilau I'm just gonna go by Will's house with a couple of hot slutty young chicks to distract him (trust me, it'll work), and steal like half of his tikis & then show up at the event and tell everyone that they're mine and that I'm a f'n GENIUS! (and I'll also advise them to ignore the crazy guy in the 54 chevy who says he made 'em - that guy follows me around everywhere...)

I'm also staying at a homeless shelter down the street from the Clipper just to throw everyone off...